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How the LHC is inspiring a Smart Urban Farm Startup
Anaïs Rassat for the KT groupIndustrial control systems can be used in smart urban farms, for example for aquaponics. (Image: Exodes Urbains)The CERN Knowledge Transfer (KT) entrepreneurship meet-ups...
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LHC Report: playing with angles
Mike Lamont for the LHC TeamThe crossing angles are an essential feature of the machine set-up and they have to be big enough to reduce the long-range electromagnetic interactions effect.The LHC has...
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De-squeeze the beams: TOTEM and ATLAS/ALFA
Stefania PandolfiNicola Turini, deputy spokesperson for TOTEM, in front of one of the experiment’s ‘Roman Pot’ detectors in the LHC tunnel. (Image: Maximilien Brice/CERN)Usually, the motto of the LHC...
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A New Building for Testing Magnets
Olaf Dunkel, head of the Building 311 project, Jose Miguel Jimenez, head of the Technology Department, and Lluis Miralles, head of the Site Management and Buildings Department, during the ceremony for...
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New arrivals
On Tuesday 20 September 2016, recently-recruited staff members and fellows participated in a session in the framework of the Induction Programme. (Image: CERN)
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ENLIGHT meeting on particle therapy in the Netherlands
Virginia Greco and Manjit DosanjhParticipants of the annual meeting of ENLIGHT, held in the Netherlands from 15-17 September 2016.The annual meeting of ENLIGHT (European Network for Light Hadron...
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Computer Security: Android’s Armageddon… Reloaded
Stefan Lueders and Computer Security TeamAndroid could be facing another Armageddon, just as we saw with the “Stagefright” vulnerability last summer (see “Android’s Armageddon”). But while that “Mother...
View ArticleLHC smashes old collision records
Sarah CharleyThe LHC is colliding protons at a faster rate than ever before: approximately 1 billion times per second.Since April 2016, the LHC has delivered more than 30 inverse femtobarn (fb-1) to...
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Beamline for Schools 2016: how to be a CERN scientist
Students from the Beamline for Schools competition in 2016 working at their experiment (Image: Noemí Carabán Gonzalez/CERN)Two teams of high-school students from the UK and Poland had the opportunity...
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European Researchers’ Night tours the Globe
Laurianne TrimoullaThe lit-up Globe of Science and Innovation promises an evening full of discoveries. (Image: Maximilien Brice, Julien Ordan/CERN)Around 600 visitors came to CERN for the 2016 European...
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HIE-ISOLDE celebration for end of Phase 1 installation
At the end of September HIE-ISOLDE celebrated the first physics experiment successfully started running using radioactive beams from the newly upgraded HIE-ISOLDE facility. The experiment was ready to...
View ArticleComputer Security: Flash! As bad as bad can be
The Computer Security TeamBeing flashed by a speed camera on the motorway is a nuisance but it’s usually your fault: you were speeding. Looks like using “Flash” on your computer nowadays is a similar...
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Inauguration of the Route de l’Europe cycle path
Corinne PralavorioHubert Bertrand, Mayor of Saint-Genis-Pouilly, Aurélie Charillon, Mayor of Prévessin-Moëns, Véronique Baude, Vice-President of the Conseil départemental de l’Ain with special...
View ArticlePay for your meal with your smartphone
No cash for your meal? No longer a problem. From Tuesday, 18 October, you can pay with your smartphone!In all of its restaurant facilities on the Meyrin site (Restaurants 1 and 2 and snack bars), Novae...
View ArticleTowards a bright HL-LHC
Rogelio Tomas and Jan UythovenStudies relating to both the LHC and its luminosity upgrade, the HL-LHC, were carried out. Work has been done on a special setting of the focusing magnets in the LHC,...
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The new-look Bulletin has arrived!
The new Bulletin has arrived in your inbox. Renamed the CERN Community Bulletin, this new-style newsletter covers all of the news and announcements published on the CERN Community page.From now on, the...
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n_TOF plays hide-and-seek with cosmological lithium
Stefania PandolfiView of the recently constructed second experimental zone (EAR2) of the n_TOF facility. The neutron beam comes from beneath the picture to hit the beryllium target inside the black...
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UNOSAT: 15 years of humanitarian mapping
Anaïs SchaefferMembers of UNOSAT work on satellite images of Haiti in October 2016 to assess the damage of Hurricane Matthew. (Image: Maximilien Brice/CERN)UNOSAT has been hosted by CERN’s IT...
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CERN Launches Open Journal of Experimental Innovation – CIJ
Anaïs Rassat for the KT groupInauguration of IdeaSquare (Image: Jean-Claude Gadmer/CERN)CERN’s new on-line journal CERN IdeaSquare Journal of Experimental Innovation (CIJ) will publish empirical and...
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CERN technical students win NASA competition award
Four students, from AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow, Poland entered the international CanSat Competition organised by NASA, the AAS and the American Institute of Aeronautics and...
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